[SLUG] kernel source

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2007 - 17:15:41 EDT


I get a fatal error when I try to install the Nvidia driver. It says:

ERROR: Unable to determine the version of the kernel sources located in
        '/lib/modules/2.6.20.6/source'.

I got the source from kernel.org and used it to compile the running kernel.
/lib/modules/2.6.20.6/source points to /usr/src/linux-2.6.20.6 which
contains:

total 9.5M
4.0K arch/ 8.0K fs/ 88K MAINTAINERS 4.0K scripts/
4.0K block/ 4.0K include/ 56K Makefile 4.0K security/
  20K COPYING 4.0K init/ 4.0K mm/ 4.0K sound/
  96K CREDITS 4.0K ipc/ 176K Module.symvers 1.1M System.map
4.0K crypto/ 4.0K Kbuild 4.0K net/ 4.0K usr/
4.0K Documentation/ 4.0K kernel/ 20K README 7.9M vmlinux*
4.0K drivers/ 8.0K lib/ 4.0K REPORTING-BUGS

"make menuconfig" shows, in "General setup -->" :
     () Local version - append to kernel release
     [ ] Automatically append version information to the version string

What else do I need to do?

In the meantime, are there any other X drivers I could use until that's up,
down to and including plain VGA? Framebufffer? 800x600 SVGAP?

I tried "nv", but apparently the version I have doesn't support this GPU
(Geforce 7600GS). How do I get a more recent one? I went to (a mirror
of) x.org, but they don't have binaries and the source is in some system
called "git". What do I do with that?

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